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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jeff Drum, post: 355644, member: 6444&quot;]I&#039;d never been to Sweden before (though I have Swedish and Norwegian heritage - one of my grandparents from each), but my daughter was there for a month so I visited her for a week and we spent a few days traveling around to see the countries. I spent a couple days in Stockholm by myself before my flight back, and had time to see a couple museums and thought the ArmeMuseum (armory museum) would be interesting for a quick look. When I got there I noticed a sign (in Swedish) but seemed to be for an auction the day I was flying out, and one of the preview days was the day I made this post. So instead of just seeing the museum, I got to go to the Auction preview and handle the items they had! Felt like I was reaching into the cases at the museum.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve never been into antique weapons, so don&#039;t really have experience with most of the stuff they were selling. Though I do have an old rapier that I purchased recently and which I think is authentic based on my general knowledge of antique metals and the rapiers I saw there. Other than studying those, it was interesting to see how heavy most of these items are. Beautiful craftmanship. Just as well I couldn&#039;t be there for the auction, since I had a single carry-on luggage and I don&#039;t think they would have been interested in me slipping any of the weapons into my carry-on bag. They had a ton of pistols, rifles, swords, sabres, armour, cannons, and other items (even a Medieval spoon with a $6000 estimate).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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